I cant have my last name!!!Follow

I have only once in 5 years of playing EQ gotten a name I selected for a surname approved. After my first and second choices are rejected, I give up and move on.

I guess by not expecting to actually have a last name, I avoid the disappointment when they are invariably rejected.

How do you get a surname? Is there a quest for it, or does it auto-magically give you the choice when you hit 20? I have a few levels to go until I get there, but still want to know. Thanks.

khorbin, at level 20 just type /lastname <your lastname>
and hey presto!

Cheers
Minky Muffin

The last name you are trying to use is from a movie, thus I really do doubt they will allow it even with a petition. Good luck to you anyway.

I don't agree.

I have seen single string celebrities - once saw mattdillon and mattdamon together (1 person two boxing ?).

I have seen nearly the entire cast of Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time and numerous other popular fantasy titles. I have seen 3 spellings of Nynaeve so far (1 correct got there first, presumably).

Sometimes I recognise a name and know I've seen it in a book somewhere and a few hours later it dawns on me - ah yes - the Recluse series book 3 the chaos wizard (or similar).

I have also seen names that look like they are intended to be the first half of a 'funny' combination. You can just feel the player called pickin itching (?) to get to 20 to /lastname mynose (or worse).

I have seen quite a number of what one might call normal earth names - anna, mike, jenny etc. Are these allowed? I assume so provided the surname doesn't match a celebrity.

I though that EQ was fairly reasonable for name monitoring - I presume when the dust settles these will be cleared up .......

Yea I don't know how stirct they are with names. I was in South Qeynos the other day and saw Asswhole running around. I guess the GMs are more concerned about another Aragorn clone running around than profane names.

In EQ1, 500 people could have the same last name if they wanted too. I'm assuming it will be the same in this game as well.

On my old server on EQ1, tons of people had the last name of Lebowski

Pendragon is the last name of King Arthur, which fits very well into the roleplaying/fantasy theme EQ and EQ2 is supposed to be about. In EQ on my server alone there were many Pendragons of same or various spellings. I can see being strict about popular movie names but if I try and give her a last name that has to do with another fantasy book ( oh for the heck of it let's say Stark from George R.R> Martin) will I then be rejected too? I understand watching for originality or for derogatory content, but something like Pendragon I have a hard time understanding why it would be rejected.

If EQ2 soars like Sony hopes it will, they will end up with a lot of unhappy customers who can not get a "clean" lastname due to it being part of our culture already.

Aye - Uther Pendragon was his father...cool name.

Slightly off topic, does anyone know if you still need GM assistance for special characters in surnames, or names with more than one capital letter? eg: D'Noir

Thanks

Hey, almost everyone on this topic is a scholar. Must be a very academic topic :P

BTW, what does it take to be a scholar? High karma? If that's it, and I got rated down a hundred times on one topic for trying to con people into rating me up (was j/k), am I screwed and just need a new name? Is it possible to get a background wipe?

I have a question, and I'm not sure if it was discussed alreayd, I just scrolled down past a cpl posts. Once you choose a last name, will what people see in game change from just seeing <First Name Here> to <First name and Last>? Or is there a way to turn it off so only your first is shown while you run around?

Also, how do you make your titles show up? Such as Orc Slayer, Gnoll Hunter, etc? Or are they automatically up, but you just don't know it?

Thanks everyone for help. =)

Edit: Whoops, also forgot to ask how you change yourself to roleplaying, and/or anonymous?

Edited, Tue Dec 7 00:25:06 2004 by TheOutlawStar

My last name in EQ1 was An'Saol.
My last name in EQ2 is Ansaol.
Reason: They do not allow more than 1 letter to be capitalized, nor do they allow special characters (apostrophes, etc).
I think it sucks.

Sorry to make this type of post my first :-)

Pendragon is actually not a surname - it's a title, in the same vein as Caesar. It was given to the High King of the Breton tribes, and depending on who you listen to, Arthur was never given this title.

This does of course mean not allowing the name is even more stupid - it shouldn't be copyrighted so there should be no infringements on it.